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alex! good call. and tonight in an >> tonight in an interview you will only see on "hannity", george zimmerman the man charged with second degree murder of trayvon martin breaks his silence. earlier today i traveled to seminole county florida where zimmerman is on bail waiting trial. he and his attorney mark omira discussed what happened the night of the tragic the aftermath and what lies ahead for them in this exclusive interview and go through the events of that night and they straighten out the record of internet rumors involving me and george delivers message to the martin family and to you and the
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american people. >> a lot of times passed since the incident with trayvon. how do you feel about it now that you have had time to reflect on what has happened? >> i haven't really had the time to reflect on it. when i was in jail i was in solitary confinement i had time to think and reflect. i just think it's a tragic situation. i hope it's the most difficult thing i will ever go through in my life, but -- >> let's go back to the night of the shooting. take us back to that night. you were going to the store. >> yes. >> let's start with the beginning. >> i was going to target to do my weekly grocery shopping. sunday nights was the only night -- well, sunday after we mentored the kids we would always go grocery shopping and
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do our cooking for the week. i wanted to go to target i headed out and that's the last time i have been home. >> you have never went back since that day. >> we have all heard the 911 call. of that 911 call you mentioned there have been a number of break in's in the neighborhood. why were you a community watch person? how long were you involved in that and why did you become a community watch person? >> in august of 2011 there was a home invasion. a young lady was home with her 9 month old baby. they broke in her sliding glass door she barricaded herself in the up stairs bedroom and my wife was home by herself and she saw the people that burglarized her run through our backyard with their belongings and even though my wife wasn't certain
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what happened that was enough to scare her, shake her up. i promised her i would do what i could to keep her safe. >> your gun was legal you had a legal weapon in the state of florida. why did you feel the need to carry a gun? a lot of people have a weapon inside their home you decided to carry yours. why did you think it was necessary to have a weapon? did you carry it at all times? >> i carried it at all times except for when i went to work. awe lot -- a lot of this has to do with stand your ground. you heard a lot about it. by prior to this incident had you heard of stand your ground?
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>> no, sir. >> the 911 call everybody has heard you said that all of a sudden you found somebody he looked suspicious he may be on drugs that was one of the earlier comments you made in that 911 call. what made you think he was suspicious and what made you think he might have been on drugs? >> i thought he was suspicious because it was raining, he was in between houses, he was cutting in between houses walking very leisurely for the weather. i didn't -- it didn't look like he was a resident that went to check their mail and got caught in the rain. he didn't look like a fitness fanatic that would train in the rain. >> weren't there over hangs? he was walking, he wasn't standing still? >> he was walking closer to the house which is backthe sidewalk? >> yes, sir.
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>> am i understanding that right? >> the over hang was in front of the front doors. >> you said he started from almost the beginning of the 911 call you said he came toward you he seemed to reach for something in his wasbaste band. did y -- waist band? did you think that was a gun? >> i thought he was trying to intimidate me? >> to make you think there was a gun. >> a weapon of some kind. >> you said something is wrong with him. he's checking me out. i don't know what his deal was. are you saying on that 911 tape you felt threatened at that moment when you said that in the dispatch? >> no, knotted particularly. >> what did you mean? >> the way he was coming back and i was on the phone but i could see him saying something to me and his demeanor his body
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language was confrontational. >> there was a controversy where there was some in the media that hired expert voice analysts and they ended up having to recant and rescind their analysis where they said these quote expletives get away with this all of the time. do you remember what it was that you said specifically on the tape? >> punks. >> not a racial epitaph of any type? >> no. when the police played it for me in the station, it was clear as day. >> you said then we get to the issue where you said on the 911 call that he's running. is there any chance in retrospect the nation is obviously paying a lot of attention to this. trying to get into the mind set.
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we have learned that trayvon was speaking to his girlfriend supposedly at the time maybe he was afraid of you didn't know who you were? >> no. why do you think he was running then? >> maybe i said running but he was more -- >> you said he was running. >> he was like skipping going away quickly. he wasn't running out of fear. >> he wasn't running. >> he wasn't actually running? >> no, sir. >> that's what you said to the dispatcher. at that point we could hear the unbuckling of a seat belt hear you opening the car door and this dispatch asked you at that point this became a very key moment that everybody in the media focused on the dispatcher asked you, are you following him? you said, yes. explain that. >> i meant i was going in the same direction as him to keep an
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eye on him so i could tell the police where he was going. i didn't mean that i was actually pursuing him. >> this moment where some suggested you were out of breath on that tape you yourself were not running? >> no, sir. >> you made a statement to the police that it was the wind as you were getting out of the car moving not you out of breath. >> yes, sir. >> just what happened during that fateful missing minute just before the shooting he has a message to the martin family and the american people. that and more straight ahead. hey linda! what are you guys doing? having some fiber! with new phillips' fiber good gummies. they're fruity delicious! just two gummies have 4 grams of fiber! to help support gularity! i want some... [ woman ] hop on over! [ marge ] fiber the fun way, from phillips'.
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. welcome back to "hannity." we continue with more of my exclusive interview with geoge >> here is my attorney with ge george zimmerman and his attorney. >> we get into the minute gap in this case. what did you do from that minute forward when the dispatch says we don't need you to follow him. what did you do next? >> i walked across the sidewalk on to my street where i thought i would meet a police officer th. >> you did not continue to follow him? >> no, sir. >> you sounded at that moment a little bit distracted.
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what was the distraction? were you looking for him? >> i wanted to make sure that -- i believe they asked me for my address i wanted to be sure that nobody was lingering and could hear my address and come back. i was making sure that there wasn't anybody that was going to surprise me just trying to give them accurate location. >> they said can we meet you here at a certain location. you said have them call me. why did you want them to call you? >> i hadn't given them a correct address. i gave them the clubhouse vicinity, however i was walking through to my street and i was going to give them the actual street number and name. >> how long was it after that that you saw trayvon again? you said you stopped, that you
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did not continue pursuing him. when did you next see trayvon martin? >> less than 30 seconds. where were you at that point and how far from the car were you at that moment? >> i guess about 100 feet or more. >> you never went mur they are than how far from your car? >> approximately 100 feet. >> you never went further from that? >> no, sir. >> at that point trayvon all of a sudden you turn around and there he was. >> what happened next? >> he asked me what my problem was. >> expletive problem? >> yes, sir. >> i was wearing a rain jacket and i put my cell phone in my jacket pocket as opposed to my jeans pocket where i normally keep it and i immediately went
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to grab my phone to call 911 instead of the knowlednonemerge when i reached into my pants pocket that's where i keep it out of habit i was shocked. i looked up he punched me and broke my nose. >> one shot. >> yes. >> he said to you, you have expletive you have a problem. >> do you have a problem, what's your problem. >> you said to him? >> i don't have a problem. >> yes, sir. >> you reach for your phone. i reach for it as i was saying no i don't have a problem. >> at that point you just got hit? >> he was already within arm's length from me. >> was that the punch in the nose that broke your nose? >> yes. >> you went immediately down to the ground? >> i don't remember when i went immediately to the ground or if he pushed me to the ground but i ended up on the ground. >> what do you remember happened from there?
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there were police reports and descriptions that you gave that you were a little bit dazed obviously. at one point you said that you wanted to stop him from hitting your head on the cement. >> yes, sir. >> is that what you told the police? >> why yoyes, sir. >> after that first hit what what happened next? >> he started bashing my head into the concrete sidewalk. as soon as he broke my nose i started yelling for help. i was disoriented and he started slamming my head into the concrete. >> which is where the lacerations came from? >> yes, sir. >> you said it was like your head was going to explode was the comment you had given to the police? >> yes, sir. >> he continued to punch me in the head. >> how many times would you estimate he punched you? >> several. more than a dozen. >> and hitting you hard?
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at what moment did you -- you said you feared for your life. at what moment do you remember when you remember you thought i may die. you said you feared for your life. you remember the exact moment when you felt that? >> in hindsight i would say when he was slamming my head into the concrete and i thought i would lose consciousness i didn't know what would happen at that point. >> how close was the concrete to the class. the big issue is the grass stains you had on your clothes. you made a statement to police that you wanted to get to the grass. was that to protect yourself from banging into the cement again. >> yes, sir. >> how close was that? >> it butts up to the concrete. >> were you able to get to the grass? >> yes, sir. >> i guess you would say shimmy. he was straddled on me with his
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full weight and i would try and sit up and push myself down. whenever i lifted up that's when he would take the opportunity to slam my head back down and punch me in the head and continue to hit my nose. >> was he talking to you a lot during this fight? during this when he was beating you. you are saying he was beating you and pounding your head into the cement. was he talking to you during that time? >> yes. >> he was saying? >> cursing. telling me to shut up and finally telling me he was going to kill me. >> he said those words. when did he first see your gun? >> after we were on the ground i shimmied with him on top of me and it made my jacket rise up and he being on top of me saw it on my right side. >> what happened after that? >> i felt him take -- he had
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after he couldn't hit my head on the concrete any more he started to try to suffocate me. i continued to take -- push his hands off of my mouth and my nose particularly because it was excruciating having a broken nose putting his weight on it. that's the point in time when he started telling me to shut up, shut up, shut up. >> why did he tell you to shut up? >> i don't know. >> we heard the screams on the one recording from a neighbor that was calling the police and there's been some dispute whose voice that is, was that your voice screaming or trayvon martin? >> that was my voice absolutely. >> that was your voice. >> police said at one time they heard 14 screams. that was your scream? >> yes. >> you said at one point he put his hand over your mouth. do you think that was to silence you from screaming? >> yes, sir.
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i believe he from what the invest dwat tors told me, he knew that i was talking to the police. i was yelling so i believe the police officer was there and they couldn't find me. i was yelling in the hopes they were in the vicinity and they would come when they heard me yelling. >> do you remember when you yourself reached for your weapon? do you remember that moment? tell us about that. >> yes, sir. at that point i realize that it wasn't my gun it wasn't his gun, it was the gun. >> did he say anything? because you said he was talking about the gun? did he say he noticed the gun? >> he said you are going to die tonight (bleep). took one hand off of my mouth and i felt it going down my
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chest toward my holster that's when i didn't have any more time. >> do you think he acted more out of a conscious thought? i know these events happened quickly. you remember consciously thinking i have got to grab my gun or did you just do it? was there a conscious thought that went through your head you thought you were going to die you had to get your weapon and fire? >> i would love to give you an answer. >> you don't know? >> it just happened so quickly. >> there was an eyewitness that was out in the very beginning that in fact told the police the night of the shooting that he saw trayvon on top of you and did see the beating. there is no witness to the actual shooting itself, right? >> besides myself. >> besides yourself. >> much more coming up. does george zimmerman regret getting out of the car to follow
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aa . welcome back to "hannity." more of my exclusive intervi
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>> what do you want to say to people that did rush to judgment that suggested there was racial profiling in this case and there was some other motivation in this case? >> that i am not a racist and i am not a murderer. >> when you think back and if there was one report or police report that actually said you didn't know after you fired -- you thought you missed? >> i didn't think i hit him, yes. >> so what happened immediately after the shooting, then, george? i understand one guy came out he said he had a flashlight he spoke to you and you said to call your wife tell her what happened that i shot somebody. do you remember that conversation? >> the conversation i had with the gentlemen? >> yes, sir. >> you do remember that conversation. he did talk about it and his suggestion is that you were very matter of fact about it. do you remember what you said to
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him? you think you were in a state of shock? when did you know that vtrayvon had died? >> probably about an hour after the i got to the police station. >> after the shooting and you saw that he was laying there and obviously injured there was a moment you realized he was shot. >> like i said, he sat up and he said something to the effect of you got it or you got me. i assumed he meant okay you got the gun i didn't get it. i am not going to fight any more. at point i got out from under him. >> do you regret getting out of the car following trayvon that night? >> no, sir. >> do you regret you had a gun that night? >> no, sir. >> do you feel you wouldn't be here for this interview if you did not have that gun? >> you feel you would not be here? >> no, sir. >> i feel that it was all god's plan and for me to second-guess
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it or judge it -- >> is there anything you might do differently in retrospect now that time has passed a little bit? >> no, sir. >> the detective said that you had -- detective singleton said the bad guys always get away. you also said that in the 911 tape. did you have a feeling that there were a lot of people that did get away frwith crimes were you predisposed to think that criminals get away too often? >> not in general i think in our neighborhood the geographic advantages for burglaries. >> do you have any idea -- why do you think trayvon would have confronted you the way he did? i made a comment on the air one day i got beaten up bad this could have all been a terrible
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misunderstanding or mistake. is there any possible he thought you were after him and you thought he was after you. there was some miss understanding in any way? >> i wrestled with that for a long time. one of my biggest issues during the ordeal has been the media conjecture and i can't assume for maybe belief. >> the parents of trayvon martin they lost their son. this is your first interview. what would you like to tell them? >> i would tell them that again i am sorry, i don't have -- my wife and i don't have any children, i have nephews that i love more than life. i love them more than myself. i know when they were born it was a different unique bond and love that i have with them. i love my children even though
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they aren't born yet. i am sorry that they buried their child. i can't image what it must feel like. i pray for them daily. >> would you like to talk to them at some point? >> um certainly open to it. >> george zimmerman sets the record state internet rumors about offers to pay for his defense. he addresses the bombshell that a relative accused him of molestation and addresses the martin family and the american people straight ahead on "hannity"." calcium plus vitamind to support strong bones. and the brand most recommended by... my doctor. my gynecologist. my pharmacist. citracal. citracal. [ female announcer ] you trust your doctor. doctors trust citracal.
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>> i am mary ann raianne raffer. the wife of john kerry hospitalized in critical but stable condition. the state department confirming 74-year-old mrs. kerry has been transferred to massachusetts general hospital. mr. kerry was admitted to a
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nantucket hospital in critical condition. she has since been stabilized. no word why she was hospitalized. five people died 40 are missing following a massive train explosion in canada. the site of the crash resembles a war zone. some 30 buildings destroyed. the crude oil derailed yesterday sparking the fiery blast. u.s. firefighters are helping put out the flames. the cause is still unknown. i am marianne rafferty now back to sean hannity's interview with george zimmerman. welcome back to hannity. we continue with our exclusive interview with george zimmerman. >> you face second degree murder charges a possible life sentence. do you think about that? >> yes, sir, every day. >> what do you think about
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regarding that? do you feel people will believer you or people will understand or are you confident you had a right to do that? >> it's a finite situation i have been placed in where i am confident in the system. i have no choice but to believe still in the system. >> the one witness you first met the guy with the cell phone that i mentioned asked about your demeanor right after the shooting. he was the first person on the scene? >> yes, sir. >> you look like you had been butt whooped that had you had a fight. you were saying call my wife tell my wife but you were acting like it was nothing. is that how you were feeling? you didn't find out until later that trayvon passed away? >> i knew i had discharged my firearm and i have had scared,
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nervous. i also thought the police were going to come with a firearm shoot me. >> you obviously realized he had been shot. did you lack over him at any time and realize he was in really bad shape? >> no, sir. >> how long was it between the time you shot him and the time the police got to the scene? >> it felt like forever. i would say 15 to 30 seconds. >> it was that quick? >> yes, sir. >> they were there within 15-20 seconds. what do you make about all of the national media attention in this case. the nation is focused on your
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case. >> i don't like the way they rush to judgment the way they have. i feel whenever there's a story remotely positive they see it negatively. >> you and i i was asking about the case, i was asking for an interview there was a report suggesting that i offered to pay your legal fees. >> never happened. >> never happened. and just for the record you have been offered nothing to do this interview? >> not a thing. >> what we talked about specifically was about your case only about your case. that's it? i was asking you for an interview. you had told me that you were alone in a hotel room hadn't talked to your family in weeks.
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didn't have an attorney at that point that was leading up to the arrest. >> yes, sir. >> you remember that moment? >> yes, sir. >> where were you mentally? when i was talking to you i was concerned. >> so was i. >> i was in a position where i was talking daily to one state police officer that had legitimate concerns for my safety. my wife i asked her to stay in florida. >> you were afraid to bring your dad he was recently sick. >> he had had a heart attack two weeks prior to the incident. i asked my wife to stay in florida and continue her nursing
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education. she was about a week away from finishing when i drove to jackson and turned myself in. >> coming up i asked george zimmerman about witness number nine zimmerman mol legged her power down your little word game. i think your friends will understand. oh...no, it's actually my geico app...see? ...i just uh paid my bill. did you really? from the plane? yeah, i can manage my policy, get roadside assistance, pretty much access geico 24/7. sounds a little too good to be true sir. i'll believe that when pigs fly. ok, did she seriously just say that? geico. just a click away with our free mobile app. what are you guys doing? having some fiber! with new phillips' fiber good gummies. they're fruity delicious! just two gummies have 4 grams of fiber! to help support gularity! i want some...
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>> we continue with our exclusive sit-down interview wi >> our sit down interview with george zimmerman and his attorney mark omira. >> the witness number 9 just recently came out. witness number 9 suggested that you and your family from a young age had racist views. and that was one statement that was originally made. then that then became from the time this woman was 6 until she was 19 that you had molested her. >> i think it was fortunate the fbi did get involved of all
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people to investigate a crime, the federal bureau of investigation and they cleared me of any racial profile can racial wrong doing. frankly it's ironic that the only person they found that could say anything about me being remotely racist. again she didn't state that i said anything racist. she didn't even state i was in the same room what anything racist was said. it is ironic the one and only person they could find that says anything pleatly to me being a racist also claims i am deviant. >> you have any comments about witness number 9? >> i don't know we are going to take the time and resources to focus on that because it's going to be a nonissue in the trial. quite honestly i don't know if we want to be focusing on attacking a cousin who has made
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whatever allegations she is made probably never seen the light of day in a courtroom. accusations she made. >> what about detective serinos' report that george be charged about manslaughter instead of second degree murder. do you think second degree murder is an overcharge? >> i said wait until we see the evidence, evidence has come forth to date, and not allowed. but all of the evidence that's come forth to date, i have yet to see elements of second degree. >> the stand your ground law, do you believe it's applicable in this case? >> yes. and i haven't said that affirmatively in the beginning, again, without the evidence. but now that we have a lot of evidence concerning what is self-defense, i think it's a proper presentation to go to a jury, and, again, remember, whether stand your ground or simple self-defense, it stays if you are acting in reasonable belief of fear of great bodily
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injury or death, so the focus, are you in fear of great bodily injury, you are allowed to respond with deadly force. >> original bond, $1 50,000. revoked and they accused you of hiding some financial matters related to donations given to you. that involved your wife in this particular case and a pretty stinging rebuke from your judge. you went back to jail as a result of this. tell us, you know, in your words, what happened? it seems that you had an opportunity to speak up and say, yes, there are other finances here and didn't do it. did you think consciously about it? explain what happened? >> unfortunately, sean, i have to interrupt you at this point. i am trying not to. right now, his wife shelly has been charged with a crime
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regarding that and suggested -- at least the court in its order suggested that george may well have committed a crime, realizing potential charges exist against george and schehe, we can't talk about those precise elements. >> including conversations on the tapes, the jailhouse tapes had you, conversations with your wife, et cetera? >> i >> i think so unfortunately with the state's position to try to charge his wife with a crime as well that wasn't on the table. i don't know that we would have the same prestrikss. >> let's talk a little bit about how you were treated in jail. you were in jail, went back to jail. what was that like for you? >> i took a community volunteer kind of law enforcement academy where civilians get to see what it's like for law enforcement.
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i had taken a tour of the jail where i was at and i remember on my tour they said that they believed in the motto that respect be gets respect. is that something they just tell us or do they really believe in that? i got to see first hand that they really do believe in that. >> obviously the prison population was very aware of your case being so high profile. did they treat you differently the inmates? >> yes. >> in what way? >> i believe that a lot of them personally know that sometimes the media doesn't portray things correctly. there was one instance when i was in the rec yard by myself and in a window a few inmates got together and just made a
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>> now the conclusion of my interview with george zimmerman. >> you had called police on at least four prior interview with george zimmerman.
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you had called police on four prior occasions and mentioned black male suspects. why did you call? what were those instances about? >> t ere those instances about? >> i never volunteered that information. it was always at their request that i described them and even when i described them i didn't volunteer their race until they asked me. there was also hispanic kids and white kids that were in the neighborhood. >> there was an incident that i read is this true, where you took on the local police department where i think it was a homeless man that had been beaten up and police were under fire and you came out publically in favor of the person that was beaten up. >> my wife and i, i saw that the story wasn't getting immediamed
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media coverage. there was one media station that aired it. it was not subject to interpretation. it was caught on video. my wife and i students working full-time decided we had to try and do something. we drove around to churches on sunday put fliers on people's cars most of the time approached people handing out fliers. and we -- >> this person a minominority? >> yes, sir. >> you felt was mistreated by the local police? >> yes, sir. >> you took as many as two, three lie detector tests? and voice. >> the result was quote no deception indicated. >> yes, sir. >> you did that voluntarily? >> absolutely. >> why?
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>> i wanted to speak as transparent with law enforcement as possible. i didn't have anything to hide. >> there is the media, the special interests and it narrative they want to make about the case is that -- you can read the articles if you haven't already. it's a white guy that killed an unarmed black youth holding skittles and an iced tea. what do you say to them? >> i appreciate you not rushing to judgment. i think that people siemed i -- assumed i was white because of my last name. my father is caucasian my mother was hispanic. english was my second language believe it or not. my grandmother raised me when my dad was in the army. he wasn't home for a lot of my infancy. i consider myself first of all an american but a hispanic
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american. i don't think it's fair that they rush to judgment to assume that. >> you feel the overwhelming ma joanity rushed to judgment? >> with a few exceptions, yes, sir. >> let me ask you this. i want to go back to one specific in the case if i can. it's the issue of you following him. i asked you earlier about the dispatched call. you stopped you didn't follow him. there was one moment where you were apparently as you looked at the grounds of where this took place and the apartment and the over hangs and another street on the other side. you had gone to the other street at some point. how do you get to the other street if you are not following him? where were you going at that point? >> i was walking from where i had parked my car towards my street. he went right down in between the houses. i walked straight across.
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>> in that sense were you following him? >> no, sir. >> this was after the 911 call. >> during. >> when they stated we don't need you to do that. >> where were you walking to your street not back to your car? i am trying to get the chronology? >> where i parked my car was on the back of the townhouses. there was no way to see the street house numbers were. if i walked straight through to there i could tell them exactly what 1, 2, 3, 4 tree view circle not the general area where my car was like i had done previous. >> i asked you if you wanted to -- if you could speak to trayvon martin's family. if you could speak to the american people. there are so many people that
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have so many opinions if you want to tell the american public something about george zimmerman something about this case with trayvon martin that has gotten so much media attention what would you tell them? >> i would like to readdress your question if i would have done anything differently. when you asked that i thought you were referring to if i would not have talked to the police if i would have maybe gotten an attorney, if i wouldn't have taken the cbsa. that i stand by. i would not have done anything differently. but i do wish that there was somethin i could have done that wouldn't have put me in the position where i had to take his life. i do want to tell everyone, my wife, my family, my parents, my grandmother, the martins, the city of stanford and america that i am sorry that this
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happened. i hate to think that because of this incident, because of my actions it's polarized and divided america. i am truly sorry. >> and greta is next. thank you for being with us. see you tomorrow. >> tonight we expose this lies and complete stupidity. you are a bully. politicians now tell us what food we can eat. >> what business is it of yours what i put in my own body. >> without a little fat and sugar what would life be? >> we are told fracking will poison our water. >> wells have been ruined. >> don't frak my mother. >> fracking is good. >> it's an amazing story. >> also because stupid people do this. pe these people lose their jobs. >> we are less safe because of you awful people. >> we deliver. >> should government deliver the mail? should it build

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